Configuring the performance monitoring tool

The performance monitoring tool, collector, sensors, and proxies, are a part of the IBM Spectrum Scale distribution. The tool is installed with the GPFS core packages on all nodes. The tools packages are small, approximately 400 KB for the sensors and 1200 KB for the collector.

Note: The tool is supported on Linux nodes only.

For information on the usage of ports for the performance monitoring tool, see the Firewall recommendations for Performance Monitoring tool.

Parent topic: Using the performance monitoring tool